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Matellis

11-12-2006, 05:38 PM

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Title: Crater City
Name: Matt Ellis
Country: Canada
Software: Photoshop

Hey everyone here is a matte painting i have been working on off and on now for a couple months and I finally finished it yesterday.

It was the first matte painting that I started but I didnt want to finish it until I had a better understanding of matte painting and practice some more.

Crits are most welcome and I will post some close ups soon :)

prasa

11-13-2006, 08:49 AM

Great scenery :thumbsup:

EhsanD

11-13-2006, 09:17 AM

very good for the first time ... :thumbsup:
great color ...
did you use some ref for it ?
cool ...
keep up ...:thumbsup:
cheers ....

rawwad

11-13-2006, 09:28 AM

Fantastic job dude, I love it. 5stars say:applause:

Velarion

11-13-2006, 03:32 PM

Hi Matt, it's a great scene,the scope,perspective, colors...good work mate:thumbsup:

Matellis

11-13-2006, 03:37 PM

oops double post

Matellis

11-13-2006, 03:40 PM

Hey thanks for the replies guys! I am really glad you like the matte.
I did use some references for this peice , about 5 in total but I did change them up a lot and painted most of what you see there.
And I will post some close ups soon and the references, I just have to get them off my home computer :)

Cheers!

MichaelZHsee

11-13-2006, 04:24 PM

tremendous improvements mate.u did a fantastic job in this one:)keep up the good work matt!:thumbsup:

tuuhia

11-13-2006, 05:01 PM

Nice Matte!!:thumbsup:...and nice color...

aksu

11-13-2006, 05:30 PM

Very lovely work. I think you should have finished it. Some photo elements integrated in those towers would have been great ;)

ChrisMayernik

11-13-2006, 07:55 PM

Good work! the thumb really a caught my eye. Some suggestions would be to add some lights to the buildings for flavor. Also some ships in the sky , one or two, and some red lights on the mountains as location lights for climbers. If those are lakes I see then you should add the sky reflection on top. They are way to matte right now.

Chris

VishyP

11-14-2006, 03:53 AM

that is beautifull..like the color palette and lighting is just so wonderfull

momarkmagic

11-14-2006, 08:32 AM

awesome matte! especially for the first time!
keep on rockin' dude! :buttrock:

Matellis

11-14-2006, 01:01 PM

Hey thanks a lot everyone for the good words and Chris thanks for the input. I think sometime in the near future I will play around with the areas you were talking about if I use this matte in my demo reel :)

Here are a couple close ups and the references that I used

Cheers guys!

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6857/craterclose1qd7.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6217/craterclose2zt9.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1804/craterclose3nd3.jpg

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8282/craterclose4pc4.jpg

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/3650/referencespk0.jpg

littlepixel

11-14-2006, 01:10 PM

superb. the pinnacle of matte painting in my estimation. I look forward to seeing your future work!

cok3

02-03-2007, 02:22 PM

this is some goood stuff matt! beautifully done dude, love the colors and mood. lookin forward to seein your new stuff

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